Bield

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. boldness, courage; confidence; a feeling of security, assurance.
  • n. resource, help, relief; a means of help or relief; support; sustenance.
  • n. shelter, refuge or protection.
  • n. A place of shelter, a refuge.
  • v. To make bold, give courage or confidence to.
  • v. To defend, protect or shelter.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A shelter. Same as beild.
  • v. To shelter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Boldness; courage; confidence; feeling of security.
  • n. Resource; help; relief; means of help or relief; support; sustenance.
  • n. Shelter; refuge; protection.
  • n. A place of shelter.
  • To make bold; give courage or confidence to.
  • To defend; protect; shelter.
  • To be bold or confident; grow bold or strong.
  • Word Usage
    "On the evening before the tragedy came to light -- trifles are always remembered after the catastrophe -- a boy, returning along the margin of the mere, passed him by seated on a prostrate trunk of a tree, under the "bield" of a rock, counting silver money."
    Variant
    beild   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shelter